A 1gb USB drive is big enough to make a live CD type live USB disk.Ubuntu and Fedora have a nifty utility that allows you to make a live USB disk from a live CD image. The live USB has the big advantage over a CD in that you can save data and changes. Great recovery tool that you can carry around in your pocket. Most computers built in recent years can boot from USB by hitting F12 at the first bootup screen. If you find a machine riddled with malware and virus, a live USB Ubuntu can be used to save documents, photos etc without fear of cross contamination. I use a 4gb drive with Ubuntu 8.10 and ClamAV installed.
I am not an American so I do not understand the finer points of your system. Here in Australia we already have Conflict of Interest legislation though not as far reaching as I suggested. Also here campaign donations are party based rather than candidate based (though not exclusively). But to answer your point, if an opponent took money/donnations/gifts then they would also not be allowed to vote. You could get a situation where half of Congress is somehow paid to not vote and thus not allowed a voice on a particular subject, but I think that would be a difficult thing to pull off. I guess we both want a situation where our politicians truly run the government "for the people" and not for vested interests.
cheers
How about a "Conflict of Interest" law. If a politician has received a campaign contribution (or any money or gift) from a particular industry or person then the are not allowed to vote on any bill on that subject - or introduce a bill that they cannot vote upon. Lobbyists would be out of a job in a day. This could even increase the average ability of all politicians, because the dumb "mouthpieces" will no longer be of use. Problem will be getting the politicians to pass the law in the first place. What is a Lobbying anyway but legalised corruption?
A bit too serious a reply maybe. And just to get back to point, the terrorists can still buy a paper street directory or even a simple tourist map. Better ban then as well.
You cannot control burn all the forest areas of the state. The fires started in the area east of Kilmore that has a fairly high population density making controlled burning of minor use. The Kinglake ranges also had a high population density so controlled burning would have had only minor impact. The firebreaks were useless. Controlled burning would have been effective around Marysville. Where I will agree with you is that that fires will become more common and the state must have some serious work done on reducing their ferocity. And that includes bigger firebreaks and more controlled burning. I however stick to my first point, on Black Saturday the fires would have occurred anyway.
On the day of the fires the temperature was 47-48 degrees, with 100kph winds and a relative humidity below ten per cent. We have had virtually no rain in 2009 so the country side was tinder dry. No amount of fuel reduction would change those numbers. When the fire risk index reaches 50 it is called extreme, on Black Saturday the index was well over 200. No amount of back burning would change that. The fire was so hot it could kill from 200 metres. Even today, three weeks after the big day, there is still an 1100km fire front burning through the more remote areas.
It keeps getting hotter and dryer, the dams are slowly emptying, we have regular crop failures. It is time to stop coming up with bullshit excuses for what is happening. Climate change is already destroying our world and politicians continue to waste time on nothing schemes.
Open the process list and Google in a window, side by side.
One by one identify each process and see what Google throws up. If nothing, then do a registry clean. If you are still slow then you start to suspect hardware.
Given the state of the world that might be a very good thing. We could hide down in the Southern Ocean and let the rest get on with their wars and plagues.
I agree absolutely, and Microsoft will have to cave in because the thought of every school kid in the country using Linux and OpenOffice would give them nightmares.
I would like to see the Education departments really use Linux laptops, but they do not have the guts to carry it through.
My suggestion was based on experience. These are children, bright or not, still children. My daughter took to HTML like a duck to water because she could see instant results that she could share with her friends. Writing words in a text editor to produce a result is programming.
These are kids of the 21st century.
Start with simple web pages in HTML, then add picture loading, tables, etc.
If they take to it, then basic javascript.
Start by using a text editor then later introduce graphical tools.
All free and easy to implement.
I replaced my earbuds with Sennheiser PMX60 neckband headphones and will never go back. I ride a bike and have never had an issue and I can still hear the traffic around me. For jogging you would need a sweatband to hold them on so maybe in that case earbuds are OK with the volume reduced. Headphones are much better than having loud noises right next to your eardrum and IMHO the music sounds much better.
I agree with the common sentiment - turn down the volume or suffer the consequences.
Installing libflashsupport is only valid for flash 9, with flash ten it is redundant.
I do not know why it affects some and not others, but a quick Google search and you will see it is a widespread problem. It is specifically pulseaudio, Adobe Flash 9/10 and Firefox. It may come down to chipsets and audio card combinations. My Intel G33 and MAudio Revolution51 crashes a lot, my daughters Nvidia board and AMD cpu with Sound Blaster Live also crashes. Both Ubuntu Hardy. I also have two with Debian lenny and do not have an issue (no pulseaudio either).
While I am pleased they have resolved the EULA issue, that is small stuff compared to the ongoing Ubuntu issue of flash and pulseaudio that causes Firefox to crash. There are a thousand and one "fixes" to be found and only a few work, and it only takes an update to undo the fix.
I have resorted to using Seamonkey for stability. So, Canonical please just make it work - EULA or not.
I am a long time Linux and Ubuntu user. I had little problems with flash for many years. Occasionally a menu would sit behind an animation, but that was not much of an issue. Then with Ubuntu's switch to pulse audio the wheels fell off. Firefox crashing was a regular occurrence. I tried Opera and discovered that it would not crash, but when a flash error occurred it would display a white box and do nothing. Often all that was needed was a refresh. Not great, but better.
Reading news groups pointed to pulse as the culprit. I have three Ubuntu and one Debian Lenny machines and they are all crash free, but the solution was a little complex. The Debian machine does not have pulse audio and uses flash 10 beta 2 and "just works". In Ubuntu I had to install flash 9 from non-free, then download flash ten beta 2 and unzip but not install. Then unistall libflashsupport through Synaptic. Then, as a super user, copy the libflashplayer.so from 10 beta to/usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/ and overwrite the old one.
Firefox now appears stable and YouTube has not crashed yet.
For Ubuntu this should be a high priority fix. All this talk about propriety software is meaningless to an end user who just wants to play on YouTube. Like it or not flash is everywhere on the Internet and if you can't use it then you either jump through hoops to fix it, or if you are a noobe you simply give up and go back to XP.
To use the Internet properly you must have a working Flash, Adobe have provided a Linux client. Now let us make sure it works on every distro in every instance.
When the format war ended I went out and purchased a BluRay player, a Samsung 1400. I connected it up to my Plasma and put in a DVD and up it came and played and the 5.1 output worked. So far so good. I went out and bought 2 BluRay disks. It was then that I found out how long they take to load. At first I thought that the player was faulty. One disks was Dirty Dancing a long time favourite of my wife's. It took ages to load and then the sound was only mono. I went back to the menus waited again, then selected proper sound, the waited again for the reload. It takes three minutes from putting in the disk to the start of play. This is the worst case, others only take 30 secs to a minute, but DVDs start virtually instantly. So, was HD-DVD this bad?
Maybe some newer palyers will speed thing up. My family can't be bothered with BluRay, they would rather hire the DVD version and avoid the hassles.
My two cents worth is to use a high quality reader. Try to read the disks in a good DVD burner as the burners have good error correction built in, I have been able to read unreadable disks in a Pioneer DVD burner that other drives would not look at.
There is no one answer to this, but you must have a quality drive to start with, then the software you choose has a fighting chance.
The first computer - the Babbage Difference Engine,
The first programmer - Ada Lovelace.
Many posters of both about. Even a subtle encouragement for female students to emulate the genius of Ada.
I agree with nguy
If you want to know why people prefer Ubuntu try this. Do two clean installs on a machine with an Nvidia videocard. One Ubuntu hardy, one OpenSuse 10.3. Try and activate the 3d driver. Try and add a few programs from the repos. Ubuntu will achieve this in minutes, OpenSuse will reread its database so many times you will have gone to sleep.
Yast is a disgrace.
I was once an avid Suse user, but no more and it has nothing to do with Novell dealing with the devil.
I regularly try new distros on a spare machine, even FreeBSD and Solaris. I am never tempted to change from Ubuntu.
I await the release of the MSI Wind, and it will have Netbook Remix on it faster than the wind.
The History channel series "The Universe" is great for kids. My daughter started watching as an eleven year old and watches each new episode avidly. It is available on DVD.
Even a very bright seven year old is going to struggle with the concepts, probably need to be nine or ten to start understanding. I am talking about Piaget development steps for kids.
Anyhow this series is a great introduction.
I like the 16:10 format because I have a Pentax digital SLR that takes photos in the traditional 3:2 format. 3:2 = 15:10, so the photos take up most of the screen. Crappy 4:3 cameras leave big black lines down each side. The 4:3 consortium should dump the idea now and realize they are flogging a dead horse. Widescreen format is everywhere, laptops, desktops, TVs and the traditional photo format is a great fit. The makers of consumer digital cameras should adopt 3:2 and replace 4:3 as quickly as they can. Oddly most glossy print paper is still in 3:2 format requiring cropping of most digital photos. Good old 3:2 matches 16:10 nicely thank you.
As for vertical scrolling, my 1680x1050 is better than my old 1280x1024, so all notebook manufacturers need to do is up the resolution a bit.
If I want an old sixties song, it is not worth 99c. No wonder Limewire flourishes. Old music should be more like 10c a track, then piracy can be combated. Apples rigid 99c rule has been a big impediment to the uptake of digital sales. And the music needs to be at a higher bit rate. 128kbs became popular when everyone used dialup. I would prefer 320, the very least 256. If I am paying for a track I want some audio quality. Apple do not own aac, it is a part of mpeg, the other music players can use it if they want, once it is free of DRM. But, again at a higher bit rate.
my ten cents worth:)
You have never needed to use the download manager, I am an Ubuntu Linux user and simply download each song by clicking on the download icon for each track. It is more tedious than downloading the whole album with on click, but works in any browser.
I like eMusic because they allow Linux people to use it, the big names tell you to bugger off as your operating system is not supported.
I was never a fan of Sir Paul, but I downloaded this album and can only support his pushing the non DRM line.
Hey Mick and Keith, if you are reading - catch up.
If the Dell's play mp3s and DVDs out of the box then someone has to get royalties. If they do not then they should not be sold to newbies coz they will not understand. We Slashdotters can fix this easily but the new user will be stumped. It will be interesting to see the detail of the Ubuntu that is shipped.
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A 1gb USB drive is big enough to make a live CD type live USB disk.Ubuntu and Fedora have a nifty utility that allows you to make a live USB disk from a live CD image. The live USB has the big advantage over a CD in that you can save data and changes. Great recovery tool that you can carry around in your pocket. Most computers built in recent years can boot from USB by hitting F12 at the first bootup screen. If you find a machine riddled with malware and virus, a live USB Ubuntu can be used to save documents, photos etc without fear of cross contamination. I use a 4gb drive with Ubuntu 8.10 and ClamAV installed.
I am not an American so I do not understand the finer points of your system. Here in Australia we already have Conflict of Interest legislation though not as far reaching as I suggested. Also here campaign donations are party based rather than candidate based (though not exclusively). But to answer your point, if an opponent took money/donnations/gifts then they would also not be allowed to vote. You could get a situation where half of Congress is somehow paid to not vote and thus not allowed a voice on a particular subject, but I think that would be a difficult thing to pull off. I guess we both want a situation where our politicians truly run the government "for the people" and not for vested interests. cheers
How about a "Conflict of Interest" law. If a politician has received a campaign contribution (or any money or gift) from a particular industry or person then the are not allowed to vote on any bill on that subject - or introduce a bill that they cannot vote upon. Lobbyists would be out of a job in a day. This could even increase the average ability of all politicians, because the dumb "mouthpieces" will no longer be of use. Problem will be getting the politicians to pass the law in the first place. What is a Lobbying anyway but legalised corruption? A bit too serious a reply maybe. And just to get back to point, the terrorists can still buy a paper street directory or even a simple tourist map. Better ban then as well.
You cannot control burn all the forest areas of the state. The fires started in the area east of Kilmore that has a fairly high population density making controlled burning of minor use. The Kinglake ranges also had a high population density so controlled burning would have had only minor impact. The firebreaks were useless. Controlled burning would have been effective around Marysville. Where I will agree with you is that that fires will become more common and the state must have some serious work done on reducing their ferocity. And that includes bigger firebreaks and more controlled burning. I however stick to my first point, on Black Saturday the fires would have occurred anyway.
On the day of the fires the temperature was 47-48 degrees, with 100kph winds and a relative humidity below ten per cent. We have had virtually no rain in 2009 so the country side was tinder dry. No amount of fuel reduction would change those numbers. When the fire risk index reaches 50 it is called extreme, on Black Saturday the index was well over 200. No amount of back burning would change that. The fire was so hot it could kill from 200 metres. Even today, three weeks after the big day, there is still an 1100km fire front burning through the more remote areas. It keeps getting hotter and dryer, the dams are slowly emptying, we have regular crop failures. It is time to stop coming up with bullshit excuses for what is happening. Climate change is already destroying our world and politicians continue to waste time on nothing schemes.
Probably got a virus and a BSOD, luckily one of the sailors had a GNU/Linux bootable CD so they could find their way home.
Open the process list and Google in a window, side by side. One by one identify each process and see what Google throws up. If nothing, then do a registry clean. If you are still slow then you start to suspect hardware.
Given the state of the world that might be a very good thing. We could hide down in the Southern Ocean and let the rest get on with their wars and plagues.
I agree absolutely, and Microsoft will have to cave in because the thought of every school kid in the country using Linux and OpenOffice would give them nightmares. I would like to see the Education departments really use Linux laptops, but they do not have the guts to carry it through.
My suggestion was based on experience. These are children, bright or not, still children. My daughter took to HTML like a duck to water because she could see instant results that she could share with her friends. Writing words in a text editor to produce a result is programming.
These are kids of the 21st century. Start with simple web pages in HTML, then add picture loading, tables, etc. If they take to it, then basic javascript. Start by using a text editor then later introduce graphical tools. All free and easy to implement.
I replaced my earbuds with Sennheiser PMX60 neckband headphones and will never go back. I ride a bike and have never had an issue and I can still hear the traffic around me. For jogging you would need a sweatband to hold them on so maybe in that case earbuds are OK with the volume reduced. Headphones are much better than having loud noises right next to your eardrum and IMHO the music sounds much better. I agree with the common sentiment - turn down the volume or suffer the consequences.
Installing libflashsupport is only valid for flash 9, with flash ten it is redundant. I do not know why it affects some and not others, but a quick Google search and you will see it is a widespread problem. It is specifically pulseaudio, Adobe Flash 9/10 and Firefox. It may come down to chipsets and audio card combinations. My Intel G33 and MAudio Revolution51 crashes a lot, my daughters Nvidia board and AMD cpu with Sound Blaster Live also crashes. Both Ubuntu Hardy. I also have two with Debian lenny and do not have an issue (no pulseaudio either).
While I am pleased they have resolved the EULA issue, that is small stuff compared to the ongoing Ubuntu issue of flash and pulseaudio that causes Firefox to crash. There are a thousand and one "fixes" to be found and only a few work, and it only takes an update to undo the fix. I have resorted to using Seamonkey for stability. So, Canonical please just make it work - EULA or not.
I am a long time Linux and Ubuntu user. I had little problems with flash for many years. Occasionally a menu would sit behind an animation, but that was not much of an issue. Then with Ubuntu's switch to pulse audio the wheels fell off. Firefox crashing was a regular occurrence. I tried Opera and discovered that it would not crash, but when a flash error occurred it would display a white box and do nothing. Often all that was needed was a refresh. Not great, but better. Reading news groups pointed to pulse as the culprit. I have three Ubuntu and one Debian Lenny machines and they are all crash free, but the solution was a little complex. The Debian machine does not have pulse audio and uses flash 10 beta 2 and "just works". In Ubuntu I had to install flash 9 from non-free, then download flash ten beta 2 and unzip but not install. Then unistall libflashsupport through Synaptic. Then, as a super user, copy the libflashplayer.so from 10 beta to /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/ and overwrite the old one.
Firefox now appears stable and YouTube has not crashed yet.
For Ubuntu this should be a high priority fix. All this talk about propriety software is meaningless to an end user who just wants to play on YouTube. Like it or not flash is everywhere on the Internet and if you can't use it then you either jump through hoops to fix it, or if you are a noobe you simply give up and go back to XP.
To use the Internet properly you must have a working Flash, Adobe have provided a Linux client. Now let us make sure it works on every distro in every instance.
When the format war ended I went out and purchased a BluRay player, a Samsung 1400. I connected it up to my Plasma and put in a DVD and up it came and played and the 5.1 output worked. So far so good. I went out and bought 2 BluRay disks. It was then that I found out how long they take to load. At first I thought that the player was faulty. One disks was Dirty Dancing a long time favourite of my wife's. It took ages to load and then the sound was only mono. I went back to the menus waited again, then selected proper sound, the waited again for the reload. It takes three minutes from putting in the disk to the start of play. This is the worst case, others only take 30 secs to a minute, but DVDs start virtually instantly. So, was HD-DVD this bad? Maybe some newer palyers will speed thing up. My family can't be bothered with BluRay, they would rather hire the DVD version and avoid the hassles.
My two cents worth is to use a high quality reader. Try to read the disks in a good DVD burner as the burners have good error correction built in, I have been able to read unreadable disks in a Pioneer DVD burner that other drives would not look at. There is no one answer to this, but you must have a quality drive to start with, then the software you choose has a fighting chance.
The first computer - the Babbage Difference Engine, The first programmer - Ada Lovelace. Many posters of both about. Even a subtle encouragement for female students to emulate the genius of Ada.
I agree with nguy If you want to know why people prefer Ubuntu try this. Do two clean installs on a machine with an Nvidia videocard. One Ubuntu hardy, one OpenSuse 10.3. Try and activate the 3d driver. Try and add a few programs from the repos. Ubuntu will achieve this in minutes, OpenSuse will reread its database so many times you will have gone to sleep. Yast is a disgrace. I was once an avid Suse user, but no more and it has nothing to do with Novell dealing with the devil. I regularly try new distros on a spare machine, even FreeBSD and Solaris. I am never tempted to change from Ubuntu. I await the release of the MSI Wind, and it will have Netbook Remix on it faster than the wind.
The History channel series "The Universe" is great for kids. My daughter started watching as an eleven year old and watches each new episode avidly. It is available on DVD. Even a very bright seven year old is going to struggle with the concepts, probably need to be nine or ten to start understanding. I am talking about Piaget development steps for kids. Anyhow this series is a great introduction.
I like the 16:10 format because I have a Pentax digital SLR that takes photos in the traditional 3:2 format. 3:2 = 15:10, so the photos take up most of the screen. Crappy 4:3 cameras leave big black lines down each side. The 4:3 consortium should dump the idea now and realize they are flogging a dead horse. Widescreen format is everywhere, laptops, desktops, TVs and the traditional photo format is a great fit. The makers of consumer digital cameras should adopt 3:2 and replace 4:3 as quickly as they can. Oddly most glossy print paper is still in 3:2 format requiring cropping of most digital photos. Good old 3:2 matches 16:10 nicely thank you. As for vertical scrolling, my 1680x1050 is better than my old 1280x1024, so all notebook manufacturers need to do is up the resolution a bit.
If I want an old sixties song, it is not worth 99c. No wonder Limewire flourishes. Old music should be more like 10c a track, then piracy can be combated. Apples rigid 99c rule has been a big impediment to the uptake of digital sales. And the music needs to be at a higher bit rate. 128kbs became popular when everyone used dialup. I would prefer 320, the very least 256. If I am paying for a track I want some audio quality. Apple do not own aac, it is a part of mpeg, the other music players can use it if they want, once it is free of DRM. But, again at a higher bit rate. my ten cents worth :)
You have never needed to use the download manager, I am an Ubuntu Linux user and simply download each song by clicking on the download icon for each track. It is more tedious than downloading the whole album with on click, but works in any browser. I like eMusic because they allow Linux people to use it, the big names tell you to bugger off as your operating system is not supported. I was never a fan of Sir Paul, but I downloaded this album and can only support his pushing the non DRM line. Hey Mick and Keith, if you are reading - catch up.
If the Dell's play mp3s and DVDs out of the box then someone has to get royalties. If they do not then they should not be sold to newbies coz they will not understand. We Slashdotters can fix this easily but the new user will be stumped. It will be interesting to see the detail of the Ubuntu that is shipped.
Did DRM only ever exist so they could jack up the price 30% for removing it, and instead of complaints everyone thanks them? :)